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  • Meta, TikTok and other social media CEOs testify in heated Senate hearing on child exploitation

    January 31, 2024 - 5:28 PM

    Sexual predators. Addictive features. Suicide and eating disorders. Unrealistic beauty standards. Bullying. These are just some of the issues young people are dealing with on social media — and children's advocates and lawmakers say companies are not doing enough to protect them.

  • CBC cutting 600 jobs, some programming as it slashes budget

    December 04, 2023 - 3:52 PM

    TORONTO - The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and Radio-Canada will eliminate about 600 jobs and an additional 200 vacancies will go unfilled as it contends with a $125-million budget shortfall.

  • Film explores B.C. woman's experience with magic mushrooms to ease cancer anxiety

    April 21, 2023 - 12:26 PM

    Laurie Brooks never thought she'd one day use magic mushrooms and advocate for the ability of others to do the same.

  • Caregivers: Returning orca Lolita to Northwest is risky

    April 04, 2023 - 3:36 PM

    SEATTLE (AP) — A plan announced last week to return Lolita, a killer whale held captive for more than a half-century, to her home waters in Washington’s Puget Sound thrilled those who have long advocated for her to be freed from her tank at the Miami Seaquarium.

  • Celebs tout ice baths, but science on benefits is lukewarm

    February 10, 2023 - 7:36 AM

    The coolest thing on social media these days may be celebrities and regular folks plunging into frigid water or taking ice baths.

  • Demand soars for kids' books addressing violence, trauma

    October 11, 2022 - 7:41 AM

    CHICAGO (AP) — As the new school year swings into gear, some students carry heavier worries than keeping up with homework: Demand has been growing steadily for children’s books that address traumatic events such as school shootings.

  • Stelter says CNN must hold media accountable as show ends

    August 21, 2022 - 10:30 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter insisted Sunday that he'll still be rooting for CNN even after his show was canceled this week, but stressed that it was important for the network and others to hold the media accountable.

  • Alex Jones ordered to pay Sandy Hook parents more than $4M

    August 04, 2022 - 8:33 PM

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury Thursday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than $4 million — significantly less than the $150 million being sought — in compensatory damages to the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, marking the first time the Infowars host has been held financially liable for repeatedly claiming the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history was a hoax.

  • US begins court battle against publishing giants' merger

    August 01, 2022 - 3:53 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The government and publishing titan Penguin Random House exchanged opening salvos in a federal antitrust trial Monday as the U.S. seeks to block the biggest U.S. book publisher from absorbing rival Simon & Schuster. The case comes as a key test of the Biden administration’s antitrust policy.

  • EXPLAINER: Bid to block book merger sets competition fight

    July 30, 2022 - 8:24 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — At a time of mega-mergers and flashy high-tech corporate hookups, the biggest U.S. book publisher’s plan to buy the fourth-largest for a mere $2.2 billion may seem somewhat quaint. But the deal represents such a key test for the Biden administration's antitrust policy that the Justice Department is calling an out-of-the-ordinary witness to The Stand: author extraordinaire Stephen King.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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